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Volume 12, Issue 1

1 July 2013

ISSN 1071-8443

eISSN 1943-3956

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Erratum
Editorial Introduction
Articles
Notes and Field Reports
Turtle Poetry

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Editorial Introduction

Celebrating CCB's Past and Looking to the Future

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Articles

Ecology and Conservation of Marine Turtles in a Central Pacific Foraging Ground

Eleanor J. Sterling; Katherine W. McFadden; Katherine E. Holmes; Erin C. Vintinner; Felicity Arengo; Eugenia Naro-Maciel

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Sea Turtles of Bocas del Toro Province and the Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé, Republic of Panamá

Anne B. Meylan; Peter A. Meylan; Cristina Ordoñez Espinosa

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Characteristics of a Leatherback Nesting Beach and Implications for Coastal Development

John H. Roe; Patricia R. Clune; Frank V. Paladino

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Strand Monitoring and Anthropological Surveys Provide Insight into Marine Turtle Bycatch in Small-Scale Fisheries of the Eastern Mediterranean

Robin T. E. Snape; Damla Beton; Annette C. Broderick; Burak A. Çiçek; Wayne J. Fuller; Özge Özden; Brendan J. Godley

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Habitat Use and Diet of Astrochelys radiata in the Subarid Zone of Southern Madagascar

Rahantavololona Vonimanitra Juliana Rasoma; Achille P. Raselimanana; Yedidya R. Ratovonamana; Jörg U. Ganzhorn

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Giant Tortoise Distribution and Abundance in the Seychelles Islands: Past, Present, and Future

Justin Gerlach; Gérard Rocamora; Julie Gane; Kevin Jolliffe; Linda Vanherck

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Sex in the Half-Shell: A Review of the Functions and Evolution of Courtship Behavior in Freshwater Turtles

Yu-xiang Liu; Christina M. Davy; Hai-Tao Shi; Robert W. Murphy

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Ancient Phenotypes Revealed Through Present Day Species—A Morphological Analysis of Australia's Saw-Shelled Turtles Including the Threatened Myuchelys bellii (Testudines: Chelidae)

Darren Fielder

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Notes on Short-Term Movements and Dietary Spectrum of the Twist-Necked Turtle, Platemys platycephala (Testudines: Chelidae) in the Nouragues Reserve, French Guyana

Stephan Böhm

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Feeding Habits of Amazonian Freshwater Turtles (Podocnemididae and Chelidae) from Peru

Bruno de Oliveira Ferronato; Carlos Ignacio Piña; Freddy Cochachez Molina; Renato A. Espinosa; Víctor R. Morales

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Hatching and Emergence Patterns in the Yellow-Spotted River Turtle, Podocnemis unifilis (Testudines: Podocnemididae), in the Várzea Floodplains of the Lower Amazon River in Santarém, Braz...

Marina T. Pignati; Luana F. Fernandes; Priscila S. Miorando; Juarez C. B. Pezzuti

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Effects of the Hydrological Cycle and Human Settlements on the Population Status of Podocnemis unifilis (Testudines: Podocnemididae) in the Xingu River, Brazil

Aderson de Souza Alcântara; Daniely Félix da Silva; Juarez Carlos Brito Pezzuti

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Effects of Community-Based Management on Amazon River Turtles: A Case Study of Podocnemis sextuberculata in the Lower Amazon Floodplain, Pará, Brazil

Priscila Saikoski Miorando; George Henrique Rebêlo; Marina Teófilo Pignati; Juarez Carlos Brito Pezzuti

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Notes and Field Reports

Mortality of Adult Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) at the Nesting Beaches of Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles

Jeanne A. Mortimer; Rainer G. von Brandis

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Green Turtles, Chelonia mydas, in Kuwait: Nesting and Movements

ALan F. Rees; Ali Al Hafez; Jane R. Lloyd; Nancy Papathansopoulou; Brendan J. Godley

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Relative Abundance, Population Structure, and Conservation of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii) in Missouri Between 1993–1994 and 2009

Timothy C. Lescher; Jeffrey T. Briggler; Zuleyma Tang-Martínez

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Mitochondrial DNA Corroborates Taxonomy of the South American Chelid Turtles of the Genera Platemys and Acanthochelys

Ryan M. Huebinger; John W. Bickham; Anders G. J. Rhodin; Russell A. Mittermeier

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Assisted Recovery Following Prolonged Submergence in Fishing Nets Can Be Beneficial to Turtles: An Assessment with Blood Physiology and Reflex Impairment

Melanie R. K. LeDain; Sarah M. Larocque; Lauren J. Stoot; Nicholas A. Cairns; Gabriel Blouin-Demers; Steven J. Cooke

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Habitat Selection and Conservation Suggestions for the Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) in the Upper Red River, China

Wang Jian; Shi Hai-Tao; Wen Cheng; Han Lian-Xian

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Occurrence of the Endangered Keeled Box Turtle, Cuora mouhotii, in Southern Vietnam

Tri Ly; Huy Duc Hoang; Bryan L. Stuart

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Sexual Dichromatism in the Northern Map Turtle, Graptemys geographica

Grégory Bulté; Ryan R. Germain; Constance M. O'Connor; Gabriel Blouin-Demers

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Habitat Features Determine the Basking Distribution of Introduced Red-Eared Sliders and Native Western Pond Turtles

Max R. Lambert; Sharell N. Nielsen; Amber N. Wright; Robert C. Thomson; H. Bradley Shaffer

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Home Range Characteristics and Overwintering Ecology of the Stripe-Necked Musk Turtle (Sternotherus minor peltifer) in Middle Tennessee

Joshua R. Ennen; A. Floyd Scott

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The Conservation Status of Several Endemic Mexican Kinosternid Turtles

Jacobo Reyes-Velasco; John B. Iverson; Oscar Flores-Villela

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Turtle Poetry

The Turtle

John Steinbeck

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